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Show WARSHIPS MUST NOT BE SCRAPPED Senator Tom Connally of Texas recently told the American Bar association as-sociation that he would never vote to scrap a single ship of our two-ocean two-ocean navy at any post-war disarmament dis-armament conference. Some readers may think that the Texas senator is concerning himself him-self too early. They are mistaken. Just as pacifists and misguided church people in this country some years ago clamored for disarmament, disarma-ment, they will do so again. In the light of subsequent events, the grandstand maneuver of the Harding administration, in junking hundreds of millions of dollars worth of American warships, war-ships, represents the most costly mistake ever made by this nation in the realm of national defense. It may be a regrettable fact but it is the truth, nevertheless, that our faith in treaties outlawing war and pledging nations not to use war as an instrument of national policy has been sadly misplaced. It is time for us to understand that law and order must be upheld up-held by force and if we want law and order in the world, the United States must contribute a reasonable reason-able proportion of the force. |